Puppies for Patriots

It is proven that the support of a service or emotional support dog, helps veterans with the day to day challenge of both mental and physical conditions. However these specifically trained animals come with a very high price tag, due to the effort that goes into adapting and enhancing their unique skill set. We are working with various organizations to establish partnerships with the goal of increasing veteran accessibility to these animals. One way that we are helping veterans gain access to a service or emotional support dog is by assuming the responsibility for a portion of the associated cost whenever possible.

This program provides financial support to pair veterans and military personnel with a service or emotional support dog. We feel that by removing the financial barrier, more veterans will be able to receive the compassionate care that these dogs provide.

Service Dogs

Service Dogs assist people with disabilities other than vision or hearing impairment. With special training these dogs can help mitigate many different types of disabilities. They can be trained to work with people who use power or manual wheelchairs, have balance issues, have various types of autism, need seizure alert or response, need to be alerted to other medical issues like low blood sugar, or have psychiatric disabilities. These specially trained dogs can help by retrieving objects that are out of their person’s reach, opening and closing doors, turning light switches off and on, barking to indicate that help is needed, finding another person and leading the person to the handler, assisting ambulatory persons to walk by providing balance and counterbalance, providing deep pressure, and many other individual tasks as needed by a person with a disability.

Emotional Support Dogs

Emotional support dogs are dogs that provide comfort and support in forms of affection and companionship for an individual suffering from various mental and emotional conditions. An emotional support dog is not required to perform any specific tasks for a disability like service dogs.